H: How would you describe your style?
Hmm, spare yet prolix! I canât write concisely to save my life, but I also am twitchy about ⌠excess, I supposeâin descriptions, exposition, whatever. Definitely more cerebral than emotional: not that I donât write emotion, of course, but not in a raw way. More reflective than visceral. Definitely heavy on dialogue and introspection.
I remember talking with @ladytharen about it a ways back ⌠oh, I think it was in the context of how my Persuasion/RO AU felt so different from operaticspacetrashâs even beyond the reversed roles. And it was hard to put into words beyond ⌠something like âI write emotions, but my style is colder, I think.â
Q: Do you have any discarded scenes/storylines/projects?
Yes. Hundreds. I mean, there are things I gave up on midway (>_>), but probably just as many things I sketched out or wrote scraps of and then never bothered with. And I have entire docs just for bits and pieces that either didnât work, or I found something I liked better, or whatnotâI save them because Iâm a word hoarder sometimes theyâre useful down the road, but mostly ⌠not.Â
More now than when I was younger, I think, Iâm willing to scrap significant chunks that donât work. Like, originally now weâre the future had another flashback to a conversion between Cassian and Chirrut after Eadu, and I wrote most of it and sketched out the rest, but I felt like two of them slowed down the overall fic too much, and that one in particular broke the pacing of the main scene.
X: A character you enjoy making suffer?
LOL, usually my faves. I once wrote one that was⌠30k or 50k or something of Darcy suffering.Â